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Kentucky State Coordinator, Kim Summers-Bates used Peace of the Pie to create a relationship with Carolyn Tandy, when she was working in a district congressional office. See how it paid off when Carolyn became a campaign director for presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Relationship, Relationship, Relationship
By Kim Summers-Bates, Kentucky State Coordinator
When Senator Obama was here in Kentucky, my children, my partner Beth and I with our new dear friend Tom (a retired naval officer who served in five tours of duty as a conventional nuclear weapons expert) went, with two packets in hand, to the convention center where Senator Obama was scheduled to speak.
While we managed, in a crowd of 10,000+ people, to get a seat on the second row, I am not sure that we were within the Senator's range of vision, as approximately 12 rows of people were allowed to stand around the platform where he was speaking. As a result we were unable to put a packet in his hand. (There were so many Secret Service agents surrounding him, I'm not sure that we would have been able to anyway.)
What I learned from this experience was this:
- Find out who your state's campaign director is.
- Go to Obama campaign headquarters before he is scheduled to speak and immediately after.
- Put the packet in the hand of the campaign director if possible. (We tried but Carolyn Tandy, Kentucky's campaign director wasn't in.)
Our story in Kentucky has a very happy ending, though: When I saw Obama's campaign director, Carolyn, this past Sunday at another rally, she said, "Oh yes, I got the packets and I remembered you from last year. You brought pie!" (Then we hugged) "I knew who you were immediately and I personally gave Senator Obama both of your packets!" (Carolyn Tandy previously worked in our third district Congressman's office!!!)
Through this most serendipitous incident, I am reminded that we just never know how the seeds will be planted. And they most assuredly WILL be planted.
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